Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by George Stroumboulopoulos
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian journalist George Stroumboulopoulos.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Look at the way I look. Guys like me aren't on TV too often. Not on news channels.
I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.
Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change.
If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.
Sports is entertainment.
I'm pretty rough around the edges, but I'm a very open person.
I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.
I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction.
I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.
News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.
I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.
I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.
I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.
I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.
You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.
You watch Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of thousands swarming around him - he'll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he's not looking away from the person he's talking to.
I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.
A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.
I only do what I love, when I love, how I love to fill up the time.
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
It's a dream for me to work with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry as well as my old friend Jeff Marek, who I started my career with.
Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
A lot of people take shots at news channels.
News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.
I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.
Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.
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